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You can hear and feel the slow clankety-clank tickover sound

of a pair of BR Sulzer Type 2 Class 24, numbers 24083 and 24053 double-heading as they wait time at the northern end of Wolverhampton station on a damp autumnal morning soon after sunrise. Having been headed by Class 86 number 86012 from Euston on Saturday October 5th 1974 this is the annual Tallylyn Railway Preservation Society AGM special which was run every autumn from London to Towyn and return. The Type 2s have taken over from the Class 86 after a fast run from the capital and they will head to the Cambrian Coast via the little used Abbey Foregate curve behind the famous signalbox outside Shrewsbury station.